I Need Your Advice. Next Week, My Group Is Going To Break Into A Prison To Release Two Rebel Agents. Im The Idea Woman, And My Plan Is A Yellow Water Buffalo Wearing A Pink Ribbon, With 4 Green Mittens.One Person Driving It, Wearing ragged Peasant Clothing,Walking Steadily With Head Down Will Experience No Troubles Getting In, Because If Will Throw Them Off Their Game So Much, And Make TheCurious Enough They Will Open Up The Gates Just To See Where I Go And What Is Up With this Buffalo. No Sudden Moves. No Weaponry. Just Steadily Walking To The Gate, And Staring At It When We Get There. Waiting For It To Open. I Think That Will Get Us In Without A Fight. If They Try To Talk, Im Playing A Zeltron Face, Im Not To Worried. My Plan For When We Get Inside Is, Well, This Should Get Me The Chance To Talk To The Warden, Because Of How Unusual This Is. I can Then Make A **** Hard Check And Ask Him To Release Them. The Imps Won't Be There For Three Days. Back Up Plan, If Things Go To Hell, Pow Pow. My Group Just Wants To Go Pow Pow. Think Its Too Crazy And I Should Shut Up.

So, What Do Hour Guys think

Your plan is confusing and I don't see why a prison would just let a random water buffalo in...

Its Not About Getting In, Its About The Few Words With The Warden In Such A Way That I Don't Appear In His Books. The Spectacle Is So I Don't Get Shot Approaching, And Get Attention. My Plan Is To Talk To Him And Ask Him Nicely For The Operatives, Before The Empire Arrives. TheBuffalo Is The Means To Do That. It Also Will Make It Harder For Those Observing It To Remember What I Look Like, They Will Remember The Buffalo, And A Person In Simple Clothes.

Very interesting, but I'm not sure this would work. You have to think, 'what are the standing orders for a prison?' Gates of prison remain closed to keep people in and out. I would expect any serious access point to have two sets of gates to allow for vehicle (or water buffalo) searches. In a real high security area someone displaying the proper credentials is allowed into the first gate, which is closed behind them. They are stuck between the two closed gates while searches and identification verification occurs. I would expect a set of guards to come through a side door to check you out. If you had to deal with them, the rest of the security would lock down the gate while an external reaction force is called. Bottom line, you cannot get in through the front door without engineering some fake credentials, by looking the part, and in this universe being human helps.

Do not watch the show Burn Notice. The point to infilitration is NOT make a scene. Ideally, you are in and out before anyone notices...more Shawshank Redemption.

Its Not About Getting In, Its About The Few Words With The Warden In Such A Way That I Don't Appear In His Books. The Spectacle Is So I Don't Get Shot Approaching, And Get Attention. My Plan Is To Talk To Him And Ask Him Nicely For The Operatives, Before The Empire Arrives. TheBuffalo Is The Means To Do That. It Also Will Make It Harder For Those Observing It To Remember What I Look Like, They Will Remember The Buffalo, And A Person In Simple Clothes.

We posted at the same time, so my previous post may be off topic. Have you considered finding the warden when he is not at the prison to have this conversation? That way you don't have to worry about being shot approaching it. Maybe at his house with his family held hostage...Is that too dark? I guess only if you kill them.

Thanks,Domingo. For What Its Worth, I Am Planning On Being Unarmed.

I Should GiveSome More Info Here. Its Not A Traditional.Prison. Small Circular Area Surrounded By Walls Of Metal Single Entry Point, With A Thick Gate. There Isn't Even A Ceiling. Its A Bandit Run Facility, And The Bandits Have Made A Deal With An Intelligence Officer For For Spice, And I Bet The Imps Are Going To Betray Them, And Kill Everyone. The Standing Orders Are To Shoot Anyone Who Approaches, Hence The Spectacle. Don't Think Shawshank. Think Water World Or Mad Max.

Its Not About Getting In, Its About The Few Words With The Warden In Such A Way That I Don't Appear In His Books. The Spectacle Is So I Don't Get Shot Approaching, And Get Attention. My Plan Is To Talk To Him And Ask Him Nicely For The Operatives, Before The Empire Arrives. TheBuffalo Is The Means To Do That. It Also Will Make It Harder For Those Observing It To Remember What I Look Like, They Will Remember The Buffalo, And A Person In Simple Clothes.

We posted at the same time, so my previous post may be off topic. Have you considered finding the warden when he is not at the prison to have this conversation? That way you don't have to worry about being shot approaching it. Maybe at his house with his family held hostage...Is that too dark? I guess only if you kill them.

I Did Consider That He Has No Family Or Love For His Crew, And He Doesn't Leave The Prison.I Checked Into it.

Ok...so not really a warden. They sound pretty rough, I think they'd be inclined to shoot you and the water buffalo for sport. I think your plan just may be a too flashy for the rest of the group. Its not that you shouldn't try a nonviolent method for resolving the situation. Maybe you need to find a simpler method for getting the message to this warden...you could send two droids as a gift.

Watch mission impossible. Create a reason he HAS to go someplace else.

I Actually Thought About Giving Them Our Two Droids. But Then Who Would Open Our Pickle Jars

I Actually Thought About Giving Them Our Two Droids. But Then Who Would Open Our Pickle Jars

The wookie, of course.

have You Ever Tried To.Get The Smell Of PickleOut Of Wookie Fur? I Think Not!

Seems almost inspired by Top Secret. (Which was a cow in gum boots.)

Perhaps if we made a giant wooden badger...

Perhaps if we made a giant wooden badger...

That Has Potential

Come up with a reason why the water buffalo is there, has its unique equipment, and would benefit everyone by being allowed inside. I'd try to make this reasoning sound like it should be obvious. This will put the bandit in a position where he's worried that what you're saying must be common knowledge he missed out on. If he disagrees, he'll look like an idiot in front of his fellow bandits, and they won't invite him to the big bandit bonfire next week.

"Oh, of course I know that water buffalo wear mittens to keep their hooves from making contact with exposed power conduits! Everyone knows that. I just thought, for the benefit of my friends here, you'd explain that so they'd know what to do when they get water buffalo of their own! And we all know why those mittens are green, am I right, guys?"

Genius! I Like The Like The Way You Think, Night!

I think that this must be a joke, but I'm not quite getting it. Can anybody link me to something that explains what's being discussed?

This Isn't A joke, Despite A Few Joking Posts In It. This Is The End Of The Adventure Fight, And Its One I Think Can Be Avoided. The Rest Of My Group Doesn't See A Way Around It, So Im Asking.For Advice On My Plan Before Next Session. Im Trying To Keep Ideas Limited To What I've Thought Of, This Way Its Still My Plan, And IWon't Feel Like Im Cheating. Getting The Warden Out Isn't AN option. I Doubt This Will Work, But Id Rather Try To Do This A Different Way Before Putting Innocent Lives At Risk (I Somehow Doubt That All The Prisoners Of A Bandit Are Actual Criminals), And Im Pretty Sure This Is A Trap Of Some Kind. I Mean Really, A Big Hole In The Top, And It Wouldn't Be Well Defended!

So Im Asking For Help Before We Walk Right Into It And Get People Killed.

Find some way to construct a rudimentary lathe...

Sorry old Galaxy Quest joke..

In some regards though this should be you and your gaming friends making the plan.

Breaking into a prison would never be easy, as much as they are designed to keep people in they are also remarkably good and keeping people out.

Perhaps the water buffalo would be a diversion, while the main assault and prison break happens elsewhere? Mind you the bad guys run the prison, were I your GM I may just shoot the buffalo and get the boys to pick up tonights BBQ and throw you in a cell too. Makes for a good diversion, but then your teams mates will be saving 3 people not just 2.

Why not dress up as imperials and try and bluff your way past on a prisoner pick up? Seems a little more likely and a whole lot safer for the buffalo.

Find some way to construct a rudimentary lathe...

Sorry old Galaxy Quest

Maybe I Should Roll On The Ground.Or Do A Fan Dance. More Galaxy Quest joke.

My Plan Is A Yellow Water Buffalo Wearing A Pink Ribbon, With 4 Green Mittens

I'm not sure that would work in EoE, miishelle, but I'm definitely stealing that idea for my anything-goes campaign with the Magic Wishing Kitten!

I've worked in corrections, and I've even been the acting lead (highest authority on site) during night shifts. We would never open the doors for an oddly colored water buffalo, or even for something like a team of cheerleaders pulling off a donkey show (well, maybe...), so I can't really buy that this is the best idea for gaining entry.

Can't you disguise yourselves as vendors of some sort? Correctional facilities still have needs for materials and/or repairs.

Is a Water Buffalo the name of a speeder or vehicle of some sort-- or actual water buffalo which I don't think exists in SW...